Report: Chargers expected to hire Mike McCoy as head coach today

The Chargers may be taking their head coach from the staff of an AFC West rival.

Mike McCoy, the Broncos’ offensive coordinator, is “nearing a deal” to become the Chargers’ new head coach, Jason La Canfora of CBS reports.

After interviewing with the Chargers on Monday, McCoy spoke positively about the experience and said he thought he’d be a good fit for the job. Now La Canfora reports that a deal between McCoy and the Chargers is expected to be completed today.

The Chargers, however, were expected to interview Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians on Wednesday. And McCoy has been named as a candidate for the vacancies in Arizona, Chicago and Philadelphia as well. So as we’ve seen with several other coaching searches, McCoy’s current status as the favorite for the Chargers job could change.

The 40-year-old McCoy was an assistant in Carolina for nine seasons and has been the Broncos’ offensive coordinator for the last four. He has been widely praised for finding ways to succeed on offense while having three very different quarterbacks, changing from Kyle Orton to Tim Tebow to Peyton Manning.

There are 2 coordinators that would be great hires. McCoy for one because he went from orton to tebow to manning. Having a coordinator that can change his system is good not one stuck in one system. The other is Gregg roman from San Fran he too went from a run heavy offense with Toby gearhart then pass happy with luck back to a run heavy in San Fran because Alex smith is so limited now gets to open things up with Colin as the qb. Oh yeah he also played d in the pro’s so he understands the harmony an offense and deffense have to have together.

So Broncos lose our defensive coordinator to the Raiders one year, and our offensive coordinator might go to the Chargers a year later. I guess that is a good sign to show the Broncos have a good team/staff. Should it be taken as a compliment.

Well…. we’ll see. I didn’t go into this whole thing with any false hopes, or preconceptions. After Norv and AJ, I’d be willing to give my Pop Warner coach from back in the day a shot. I think Telesco was a good move and with his input, I’m sure they’ll make a wise pick for HC.

I’m sure all the Chargers/Chiefs haters are going to disagree, but I wouldn’t quite just give away the AFCWest to the Broncos so fast. We all know the Raiders suck, but I can see the other 3 AFCW teams putting up a good fight.

Had heard the Eagles were interested in McCoy but the interview did not knock their socks off and it looks like the Birds have decided on Gus Bradley instead. Time will tell but I believe Bradley to be the better choice.

It will be interesting to look back at these 8 hires in 3-5 years and see which GM made the best pick, or there might be 2-3 who do really well…kind of like the Draft, you won’t know if you made the right pick for a few years.

Hate the move; are you nuts? After Saturday, we want some more house cleaning! Hopefully the scouts are really busy looking for some play makers on D to replace the everybody that rushes the passer other than 58. The only grass Flacco had on his Jersey was when he got mobbed by his own team mates.

“He has been widely praised for finding ways to succeed on offense while having three very different quarterbacks, changing from Kyle Orton to Tim Tebow to Peyton Manning.”
Seriously, I don’t mean to be harsh but what is there to praise?
Their offense stank with Tebow/Orton and he shouldn’t get the credit for Manning being instant offense who brings his own system.
Before Denver he was involved mostly with the Panthers passing game that went from average to poor.
When has the guy had actual success without Manning calling the shots?
He seems like another one of those guys that has some kind of myth about them being good (see Rob Ryan)